This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.
So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.
The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
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